My username on Audiogon is Grannyring. Simply copy and paste the links into your browser in order for you to view the pictures. These sell for $22,000 today not including my substantial upgrades. My price is very, very low so if you pay by PayPal you will need to cover the fee. I accept cash at pick up or cashiers check also. Will use funds to start my next speaker modification project. Purchased from a dealer and some 4 years old. My favorite speaker made to sound the best they can with upgraded first class crossover parts. No change was made in Robert Lee's design. I maintained all the same value capacitors and resistors and upgraded the parts quality with outstanding results. All parts matched within 1%. Inductors were not touched as they are very high quality types. Robert's design is brilliant with the cabinet work and driver quality all top notch. The crossover parts were the only area that could be improved and this would have been cost prohibitive for the builder. Before the upgrade this speaker is well known as a very special transducer and highly reviewed. Post upgrade these are outrageously good. All the lesser quality sand cast resistors were replaced with first class Duelund CAST, Duelund regular, and Mills MRA12 resistors. I had to replace a sea of these lower quality resistors as the pictures show. Lower quality poly caps were replaced with the outstanding Jupiter HT and VT line of premium capacitors. These are very expensive parts that sound so wonderful in this speaker. I am an avid DIY guy building amps, tube amps, upgrading speaker crossovers and gear etc... I did the work on these speakers and it was a near 10 day labor of love. See my feedback on Audiogon under my username grannyring. These speakers sell for $9-$10 grand used without these upgrades. I purchased all the parts at very steep discounts for just under $1200 and the upgrade took me many long days as it required a great deal of effort to do it right. To buy the parts right now would cost you some $1700. I used top notch terminal strips to raise many of the resistors off the board to help in heat dissipation and vibration control. Jupiter stranded copper wire in cotton and well as Duelund 16ga stranded copper wire in cotton was used in the crossover as well as Cardas solder. No detail was overlooked! Please view the links to see the before and after work done with the crossovers. Prefer local pick up, but will consider shipping to the right buyer. I live in the Nashville TN area. I do have the original boxes and grills for the lower and upper sections. I am willing to meet someone for a drop off and serious buyers are welcome to see and hear the speakers in my rig. Here are pictures of the crossover work and upgrades; http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/grannyring1/library/Crescendo%20crossover http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/grannyring1/library/Bass%20board%20crossover You can also read all about the upgrade and how it unfolded here on Audiogon; https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/acoustic-zen-crescendo-speaker-crossover-capacitors-who-makes-them The final modification done bypassed the binding posts for direct hookup of the speaker's crossover to your speaker cable spades or bare wire. Wonderful improvement in purity of sound so much more "real" sounding. Great little mod. See pics here; http://s1097.photobucket.com/user/grannyring1/library/Crescendo%20binding%20post%20bypass%20modification?sort=3&page=1 These are the MKI version and with all the crossover upgrades easily outperform the MKII. Robert did incorporate the upgraded MKll crossover design in this set however. Just missing some of the additional cabinet bracing found in the $22,000 MKll. Thanks for looking Bill
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